Reinhard Oehme | |
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| Born | January 28, 1928 |
| Died | October 4, 2010 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | German |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Rheingau Gymnasium Geisenheim (Abitur) |
| Alma mater | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Diploma) Universität Göttingen (Dr.rer.nat) |
| Known for | CP violation Edge-of-the-wedge theorem |
| Spouse | Mafalda Pisani (died 2004) |
| Awards | Humboldt Award (1974) Guggenheim Fellowship (1964) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Enrico Fermi Institute |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | Werner Heisenberg |
| Other academic advisors | Erwin Madelung (diploma) |
Reinhard Oehme (German: [ˈøːmə]; born 26 January 1928, Wiesbaden; died sometime between 29 September and 4 October 2010, Hyde Park[1]) was a German-American physicist known for the discovery of C (charge conjugation) non-conservation in the presence of P (parity) violation, the formulation and proof of hadron dispersion relations, the "Edge of the Wedge Theorem" in the function theory of several complex variables, the Goldberger-Miyazawa-Oehme sum rule, reduction of quantum field theories, Oehme-Zimmermann superconvergence relations for gauge field correlation functions, and many other contributions.
Oehme was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of Dr. Reinhold Oehme and Katharina Kraus. In 1952, in São Paulo, Brazil, he married Mafalda Pisani, who was born in Berlin as the daughter of Giacopo Pisani and Wanda d'Alfonso. Mafalda died in Chicago in August of the year 2004.